The Hole In The Wall Gang — five young Northern Irish
comedians, namely Michael McDowell, Tim McGarry, Nuala McKeever, Damon
Quinn and Martin Read — wrote and performed this series, transmitted in
the Week Ending slot during its 1995 summer
break. The Gang are best known for their head-on confrontation of
issues thrown up by the Troubles, with features such as the self-explanatory
‘Sectarian Adventures of Orange-Man’. But this series also contained
many sketches on more general themes, usually satirical in tone; there
was also a ‘situation’, with the show presented as a retrospective of the
Gang’s work created several decades into the future and containing mock-biographical
pieces about their life stories.